...body loses its thick, ness, and they appear as if without life. TOTEMS are defined by Mr. JG Fraser as " a class of material objects which a savage regards...class an intimate and altogether special relation." They are tribal emblems, family symbols, signals of nationality, expressions of religion, bonds of...

...Bastian, Zur naturwissenschaftlicJien Behandlungsweise der Psychologic, p. 128 sq. TOTEMISM. A TOTEM is a class of material objects which a savage regards...class an intimate and altogether special relation. The name is derived from an Ojibway (Chippeway) word totem, the correct spelling of which is somewhat...

...MA, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and of the Middle Temple, Barri ater-at -Law. A Totere is a class of material objects which a savage regards...class an intimate and altogether special relation. The name is derived from an Ojibway (Chippeway) word, totem. Edinburgh : ADAM & CHARLES BLACK. DR....

...the body loses its thickness, and they appear as if without life. TOTEMS are defined by Mr. JG Fraser as " a class of material objects which a savage regards...class an intimate and altogether special relation." They are tribal emblems, family symbols, signals of nationality, expressions of religion, bonds of...

...clan or kindred had its totem. Totems are defined by Mr. Frazer, in his learned work on the subject, as "a class of material objects, which a savage regards...class an intimate and altogether special relation." The members of a totem clan commonly regard themselves as actually descended from the totem. If the...

...clan or kindred had its totem. Totems are defined by Mr. Frazer, in his learned work on the subject, as " a class of material objects, which a savage regards...class an intimate and altogether special relation." The members of a totem clan commonly regard themselves as actually descended from the totem. If the...

...Encyclopedia Britannica, gives the following descriptions and definitions of a TotemJ : — " 1. A Totem is a class of material objects which a savage regards...class an intimate and altogether special relation. 2. The connection between a man and his Totem is mutually beneficent ; the Totem protects the man,...

...Encyclopedia jBritanniea, gives the following descriptions and definitions of a TotemJ : — " 1. A Totem is a class of material objects which a savage regards...superstitious respect, believing that there exists l>etween him and every member of the class an intimate and altogether special relation. 2. The connection...

...antiquity was Totemism. Totems are usually, but not always, animals. They have been defined by Mr. Fraser as ' a class of material objects, which a savage regards...class an intimate and altogether special relation.' As a rule all the members of a tribe or tribal subdivision regard all of one kind of animal as their...

...in that of Totemism tribal organisation and social life among uncivilised peoples. A totem is denned as a class of material objects which a savage regards with superstitious respect, believing that it protects him ; he in return never kills it if an animal, or injures or gathers it if a plant. The...